Mørkhøj is a suburb c. northwest of central
Copenhagen
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,
Denmark
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. Mørkhøj is part of
Gladsaxe Municipality
Gladsaxe Municipality () is a municipality (Danish, '' kommune'') near Copenhagen in Region Hovedstaden on the island of Zealand (''Sjælland'') in eastern Denmark. The municipality covers an area of , and has a total population of 70,958 (2025). ...
. The area is mixed with single-
family
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homes and
public housing
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and light industry. It has c. 10000 inhabitants.
History
In 1635, Mørkhøj comprised six arable farms whose principal crops were barley (66%), rye (19%) and oats (13%), cultivated using the
three-field system
The three-field system is a regime of crop rotation in which a field is planted with one set of crops one year, a different set in the second year, and left fallow in the third year. A set of crops is ''rotated'' from one field to another. The tech ...
.
In 1682, Mørkhøj comprised nine farms and nine houses without land. The total cultivated land was c. .
Development
Of the original village, only the main building remains today. It housed the until 2017, and is now proposed for redevelopment.
Culture
The popular Danish children's TV-show was recorded in the Gyngemosen area of Mørkhøj, at the time a forest area, which has since been turned in to an apartment complex. The chimney of the main character Bamses house can be found in the kindergarten
Børnehuset Solstrålen, which previously also had the door to the house, which has since been vandalised, and later stolen.
Education
Mørkhøj has two primary schools, Enghavegård skole, and Mørkhøj skole, as well as a teacher's college, called
Blaagaard Seminarium.
References
External links
Glimt af Mørkhøj Bys historie(in Danish)
Geography of Copenhagen
Gladsaxe Municipality
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